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  <div class="section" id="visual-studio-11-2012">
<span id="generator:Visual Studio 11 2012"></span><h1>Visual Studio 11 2012<a class="headerlink" href="#visual-studio-11-2012" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Generates Visual Studio 11 (VS 2012) project files.</p>
<p>For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.0, one may specify this
generator using the name “Visual Studio 11” without the year component.</p>
<div class="section" id="project-types">
<h2>Project Types<a class="headerlink" href="#project-types" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated.  Other types of
projects (JavaScript, Database, Website, etc.) are not supported.</p>
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<div class="section" id="platform-selection">
<h2>Platform Selection<a class="headerlink" href="#platform-selection" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The default target platform name (architecture) is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Win32</span></code>.</p>
<p>The <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM</span></code></a> variable may be set, perhaps
via the <span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake(1)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake.1.html#manual:cmake(1)" title="cmake(1)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake(1)</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-A</span></code> option, to specify a target platform
name (architecture).  For example:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">Win32</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">x64</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">ARM</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">&lt;WinCE-SDK&gt;</span></code>
(Specify a target platform matching a Windows CE SDK name.)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify
a target platform name optionally at the end of the generator name.
This is supported only for:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012</span> <span class="pre">Win64</span></code></dt><dd><p>Specify target platform <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">x64</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012</span> <span class="pre">ARM</span></code></dt><dd><p>Specify target platform <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ARM</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">11</span> <span class="pre">2012</span> <span class="pre">&lt;WinCE-SDK&gt;</span></code></dt><dd><p>Specify target platform matching a Windows CE SDK name.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<h2>Toolset Selection<a class="headerlink" href="#toolset-selection" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">v110</span></code> toolset that comes with Visual Studio 11 2012 is selected by
default.  The <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET</span></code></a> option may be set, perhaps
via the <span class="target" id="index-1-manual:cmake(1)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake.1.html#manual:cmake(1)" title="cmake(1)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake(1)</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-T</span></code> option, to specify another toolset.</p>
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